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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 3 (search)
Book III: Cabot and Verrazzano. (A. D. 1497-1524.) Ship of the 15th Century. The first of these extracts in regard to the Cabots may be found in one of the Hakluyt Society's volumes, entitled Henry Hudson the Navigator, edited by G. M. Asher, London, 1860, p. Ixix. The extracts which follow are from another volume of the same series, entitled Hakluyt's Divers Voyages, London, 1850, pp. 23-26. Verrazzano's narrative is taken from Hakluyt's Divers Voyages, same edition, pp. 55-71. Another translation, by J. G. Cogswell, may be found, with the original Italian narrative, in the Collections of the New York Historical Society, second series, vol. I. I.—First news of John and Sebastian Cabot. [from a letter written by Lorenzo Pasqualigo, from London, to his. Brothers in Venice, and dated Aug. 23, 1497.] This Venetian of ours, who went with a ship from Bristol in quest of new islands, is returned, and says that seven hundred leagues hence he discovered terra